J1.5 talk

Creating a simple module

From Joomla! Documentation

Difficult

It'd be nice if someone could modify this page and add explanations of some of the code. Most of the time the author assumes you should just work it out or something, not very helpful. For instance, what is jtext, what is JModuleHelper::getLayoutPath? There is basically two lines for each block of code at the moment.

Other guy

Uh...ok, wow. I don't dare try to modify the main page as I'm absolutely a greenhorn at Joomla, but as I'm absolutely needing to know this information like right now, I'll at least add comments here to help the next guy out.

Once these files are created, you have to place them where either your web browser or your server can get to them, and then use the Joomla Administrator panel to install the module. This creates the necessary database rows to serve the module where you need it to function.